Friday, January 13, 2017

The Bride of Romancing the Klondike

To celebrate Canada’s
150th birthday Books We Love Ltd is publishing twelve historical
novels, one for each of the ten provinces, one for the Yukon Territory, and one
combining the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. We Canadian authors were asked
to pick one of the provinces or territories to write about or to do the research
on for a non-Canadian author. I chose the Yukon because I have been there twice
and love the beauty and history of the territory. The following is a quick introduction to the bride of my novel Romancing the Klondike.

Bride of Romancing
the Klondike

In 1896,
nineteen-year-old Pearl Owens and her cousin, Emma, are on their way up the
Yukon River to Fortymile. Pearl is on an adventure to the north where she will
be writing articles about the area for her hometown newspaper. The two women
meet up with Sam Owens, Emma’s brother, and his two friends, Donald and Gordon,
in Fortymile. The men, who have been searching for gold in the north for five
years, have just returned from staking a claim on Rabbit Creek.

Sam and his friends move to their claims
on what is now known as Bonanza Creek. Against Sam’s instructions Pearl and
Emma follow them, setting up a tent on a bench at the mouth of the Klondike
River overlooking the Yukon River.

Pearl meets Joseph Ladue, the first man to
ever set her heart aflutter, while Emma’s teenage feelings for Donald are
rekindled. Pearl spends her time speaking with the men and women of the north
and sketching the scenery. She writes about what it is like to be in the middle
of a gold strike. She also describes the early development and growth of a town
eventually known as Dawson.

During the ten months they live in the
north Pearl and Emma make friends, celebrate holidays, and suffer through
tragedy. One of them finds love, one does not. Of the three men two get rich,
one does not.

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I was born in New Westminster B.C. and raised in Edmonton.I have worked as a bartender, cashier, bank teller, bookkkeeper, printing press operator, meat wrapper, gold prospector, house renovator, and nursing attendant. I have had numerous travel and historical articles published and wrote seven travel books on Alberta, B.C. and the Yukon and Alaska that were published through Lone Pine Publishing in Edmonton.
One of my favourite pasttimes is reading especially mystery novels and I have now turned my writing skills to fiction. However, I have not ventured far from my writing roots. The main character in my Travelling Detective Series is a travel writer who somehow manages to get drawn into solving mysteries while she is researching her articles for travel magazines. This way, the reader is able to take the book on holidays and solve a mystery at the same time.
Illegally Dead is the first novel of the series and The Only Shadow In The House is the second. The third Whistler's Murder came out in August 2011 as an e-book through Books We Love. It can be purchased as an e-book and a paperback through Amazon.
i live on a small acreage in the Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island.